Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination (PAID): An Analysis of NSF ADVANCE Programs

该项目旨在了解大学如何才能最有效地创造支持女学者取得成功的体制环境。我们将利用在国家科学基金会的先进计划下实施机构转型（IT）项目的机构所做的重要工作。各个机构评估并记录了自己的目标、战略和流程。这项研究采取了跨机构，分析和综合的方法来提取经验教训，最佳实践和组织战略，支持妇女学者在STEM领域的成功。该研究解决了以下问题：组织变革努力的有效性和长期可行性，以创造有利于女学者，特别是在STEM领域的成功的体制环境，已经学到了什么？这些子问题是：- 哪些战略和进程在创造有利于女学者取得成功的体制环境方面发挥了良好作用，特别是在STEM领域？是否有一些战略在具体目标方面特别有效？- 为什么这些战略和进程运作良好？为什么有些人做得不好？- 一所大学的组织文化和其他机构特征如何与所使用的战略和过程的最初选择和最终有效性相关？- 在变革战略和流程在创造有利于支持STEM女教师职业进步的环境方面取得重大成果的机构中，可以从有效的变革理论和有效的战略和流程中学到什么？也就是说，从已经产生影响的ADVANCE计划中可以学到什么关于“最佳实践”的经验教训？这项为期三年的研究将采用混合方法，由有关组织变革和教师工作的概念框架指导。十九个机构举行了先进的信息技术奖将进行调查，其中五个将被选为详细的审查作为案例研究。数据收集方法包括审查项目报告、网上调查、电话访谈和现场访问;这些主要是定性数据，将使用概念框架进行分析，并在变革战略矩阵中组织。智力MeritThe研究是基于组织变革和教师工作的文献，并由一个高素质的团队提出。它的目的是明确的，既有助于实践和学术文献。通过对多个数据集的分析，本研究将产生研究结果，扩大对高等教育组织转型过程的认识。调查结果将有助于机构如何培养有利于妇女的成功的环境，如何具体的变革战略与组织的影响，机构如何使用明确的变革理论或理由，以及机构环境如何影响特定的变革战略的影响知识。该研究将产生成果和交付成果，为各种各样的受众提供具体的循证信息和详细的案例：寻求提高女性STEM学者成功的机构领导人和变革推动者;女性STEM教师可以使用该研究来指导自己的职业规划或塑造自己机构的政策，计划或战略;以及高等教育、性别和组织变革的学者。

This project addresses the need to understand how universities can most effectively create institutional environments that support the success of women scholars. We will leverage the significant work done at institutions that have implemented Institutional Transformation (IT) projects under the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program. Individual institutions have assessed and chronicled their own goals, strategies, and processes. This study takes a cross-institutional, analytical and synthetic approach to extract the lessons, best practices, and organizational strategies that support the success of women scholars in STEM fields. The study addresses the following question: What has been learned about the effectiveness and long-term viability of organizational change efforts to create institutional environments that are conducive to the success of women scholars, particularly in STEM fields? The sub-questions are: - What strategies and processes have worked well in creating institutional environments that are conducive to the success of women scholars, especially in STEM fields? Have some strategies worked particularly well in regard to specific goals? - Why have these strategies and processes worked well? Why did some not work well? - How does a university's organizational culture and other institutional characteristics relate to the initial choice and ultimate effectiveness of the strategies and processes used? - In institutions where change strategies and processes have resulted in significant outcomes in terms of creating environments that are conducive to supporting the career progress of STEM women faculty, what can be learned about effective theories of change and effective strategies and processes? That is, what lessons on "best practices" can be learned from ADVANCE programs that have had an impact? The three-year study will use a mixed-methods approach, guided by conceptual frameworks concerning organizational change and faculty work. Nineteen institutions that have held ADVANCE IT awards will be surveyed, from which five will be chosen for detailed examination as case studies. Data-gathering methods include a review of project reports, a web-based survey, telephone interviews, and site visits; these largely qualitative data will be analyzed using the conceptual frameworks and organized in Change Strategy Matrices. Intellectual MeritThe study is grounded in the literature on organizational change and faculty work and presented by a highly qualified team. It is explicitly designed to contribute both to practice and the scholarly literature. Through analysis of multiple data sets, the study will produce research findings that expand knowledge about the process of organizational transformation in higher education. Findings will contribute to knowledge of how institutions can foster environments conducive to women's success, how specific change strategies relate to organizational impact, how institutions use explicit change theories or rationales, and how institutional context influences the impact of particular change strategies. Broader Impact The study will produce outcomes and deliverables that provide specific evidence-based information and detailed case examples to a wide variety of audiences: institutional leaders and change agents who seek to enhance the success of women STEM scholars; female STEM faculty who may use the study to guide their own career planning or to shape their own institutions' policies, programs, or strategies; and scholars of higher education, gender, and organizational change.